ACK: [SRU][J][PATCH 0/1] CVE-2024-40973

Yuxuan Luo yuxuan.luo at canonical.com
Wed Nov 20 19:16:12 UTC 2024


On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 05:23:11PM +0100, Massimiliano Pellizzer wrote:
Acked-by: Yuxuan Luo <yuxuan.luo at canonical.com>
> [Impact]
> 
> media: mtk-vcodec: potential null pointer deference in SCP
> 
> The return value of devm_kzalloc() needs to be checked to avoid
> NULL pointer deference. 
> 
> [Fix]
> 
> Oracular: Not affected
> Noble: Fixed
> Jammy: Backported from mainline
> Focal: Not affected
> Bionic: Not affected
> Xenial: Not affected
> 
> [Test Case]
> 
> Compile tested only.
> 
> [Where problems could occur]
> 
> The fix affects the MediaTek video codec driver. An issue with this fix
> may lead to kernel crashes during video encoding or decoding operations.
> Users may also experience interruptions in multimedia playback.
> 
> Fullway Wang (1):
>   media: mtk-vcodec: potential null pointer deference in SCP
> 
>  drivers/media/platform/mtk-vcodec/mtk_vcodec_fw_scp.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> -- 
> 2.43.0
> 
> 
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